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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 30:1 - 30:1
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younger - not the three friends (Job 15:10; Job 32:4, Job 32:6, Job 32:7). A general description: Job 30:1-8, the lowness of the persons who derided him; Job 30:9-15, the derision itself. Formerly old men rose to me (Job 29:8). Now not only my juniors, who are bound to reverence me (Lev 19:32), but even the mean and base-born actually deride me; opposed to, “smiled upon” (Job 29:24). This goes farther than even the “mockery” of Job by relations and friends (Job 12:4; Job 16:10, Job 16:20; Job 17:2, Job 17:6; Job 19:22). Orientals feel keenly any indignity shown by the young. Job speaks as a rich Arabian emir, proud of his descent.
dogs - regarded with disgust in the East as unclean (1Sa 17:43; Pro 26:11). They are not allowed to enter a house, but run about wild in the open air, living on offal and chance morsels (Psa 59:14, Psa 59:15). Here again we are reminded of Jesus Christ (Psa 22:16). “Their fathers, my coevals, were so mean and famished that I would not have associated them with (not to say, set them over) my dogs in guarding my flock.”